Writer-producer Joseph C. Wilson has signed an overall deal with Fox 21 Television Studios. Under the pact, he’ll serve as a co-executive producer on the second season of Showtime’s drama series The Chi, produced by Fox 21.
“We are thrilled to have the talented Joe Wilson’s exclusive services at Fox 21, and excited that he will join our friend Lena Waithe’s breakout hit The Chi as a Co-ep next season,” said Fox 21 Television Studios President Bert Salke. “He’s a great addition to Ayanna Floyd Davis’ team as we head into the second season of this important show we’re so proud of.”
The Chi’s January 7 debut was Showtime’s highest-rated drama premiere in two years, since Billions in 2016. Wilson joins Davis, who was previously announced as executive producer and showrunner for Season 2, along with Waithe and executive producer Common.
Season 2 will begin production later this year.
“We are thrilled to have the talented Joe Wilson’s exclusive services at Fox 21, and excited that he will join our friend Lena Waithe’s breakout hit The Chi as a Co-ep next season,” said Fox 21 Television Studios President Bert Salke. “He’s a great addition to Ayanna Floyd Davis’ team as we head into the second season of this important show we’re so proud of.”
The Chi’s January 7 debut was Showtime’s highest-rated drama premiere in two years, since Billions in 2016. Wilson joins Davis, who was previously announced as executive producer and showrunner for Season 2, along with Waithe and executive producer Common.
Season 2 will begin production later this year.
- 8/9/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Jason Spencer, the state representative from Georgia who used racial slurs and bared his buttocks in Sunday’s episode of Who Is America?, has announced he will resign his elected seat on July 31.
Per The New York Times, announcement of Spencer’s resignation came Wednesday via an email from Georgia House Speaker David Ralston.
Just two episodes in, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? has created buzz for itself by having a disguised Cohen dupe various political figures into making controversial statements and doing egregious things. For instance, in the series premiere, the series showed Congressmen Joe Wilson and...
Per The New York Times, announcement of Spencer’s resignation came Wednesday via an email from Georgia House Speaker David Ralston.
Just two episodes in, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? has created buzz for itself by having a disguised Cohen dupe various political figures into making controversial statements and doing egregious things. For instance, in the series premiere, the series showed Congressmen Joe Wilson and...
- 7/25/2018
- TVLine.com
As members of Congress today grilled Hillary Clinton about the death of Americans in Benghazi, Libya, Republican Rep. Joe Wilson asked why U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on Sunday news shows to face the music immediately following the attack instead of the Secretary of State. “I have to confess, here in public, going on the Sunday shows is not my favorite thing to do,” she replied. “There are other things I’d prefer to do on Sunday mornings. And, you know, I haven’t been on a Sunday show in way over a year. It just isn’t something that I normally jump to do. And I did feel strongly that we had a lot that we had to manage, that I had to respond to, and that that should be my priority.” Clinton testified to Senate and House committees today about the attack by armed militants that killed U.
- 1/24/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-sc) famously yelled “you lie” at President Barack Obama during his 2010 State of the Union address and continues to be linked to that breach of accepted decorum. On Monday, Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly asked Wilson for his thoughts on the Obama campaign’s labeling of both Gop presidential and vice presidential nominees Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan liars over claims they made in their respective debates...
- 10/15/2012
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
Fighting off a boycott and scrambling for a headliner, the biggest annual conservative gathering takes place this week. Eight things to watch at Cpac.
The right descends on Washington this week, as thousands of activists pour into the nation's capital to attend the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. It's a heady time-with Republicans having seized control of the House, closed the gap with Democrats in the Senate, and now gearing up for a chance to reclaim the White House in 2012. But all is not well at the old-line American Conservative Union, which throws the annual party.
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The organization is embroiled in an embezzlement scandal. Fellow travelers are boycotting the whole affair because Cpac's big tent allowed a gay Republican group inside. With one day left before kickoff, no headliner had been chosen. And longtime leader David Keene is said to...
The right descends on Washington this week, as thousands of activists pour into the nation's capital to attend the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. It's a heady time-with Republicans having seized control of the House, closed the gap with Democrats in the Senate, and now gearing up for a chance to reclaim the White House in 2012. But all is not well at the old-line American Conservative Union, which throws the annual party.
Related story on The Daily Beast: America's Proud Egypt Moment
The organization is embroiled in an embezzlement scandal. Fellow travelers are boycotting the whole affair because Cpac's big tent allowed a gay Republican group inside. With one day left before kickoff, no headliner had been chosen. And longtime leader David Keene is said to...
- 2/9/2011
- by Samuel P. Jacobs & Shushannah Walshe
- The Daily Beast
During the final hurdles of the heatlh-care bill last night, tensions spilled over as Rep. Bart Stupak (D-mi) railed against his own Amendment, the anti-abortion "Stupak Amendment," which Republicans tried to use as a tool to quickly overturn the just-passed health care reform bill late Sunday evening. But it wasn't the political maneuvering or even the hard-grinding gears of government that made Stupak's speech the most buzzed about moment of the historic bill's passage. It was the heckling of a yet-to-be-named Republican barking "baby killer" at Stupak--ironic, considering the representative is one of the most pro-life Democrats in the House.
Like Joe Wilson's "you lie!" outburst, "baby killer" instantly became the talk of the town, especially on the Internet. But how does such a trivial moment--the second-long shout of an enraged audience member--become water-cooler talk over the century-long fight of passing health care? How quickly does it spread online?...
Like Joe Wilson's "you lie!" outburst, "baby killer" instantly became the talk of the town, especially on the Internet. But how does such a trivial moment--the second-long shout of an enraged audience member--become water-cooler talk over the century-long fight of passing health care? How quickly does it spread online?...
- 3/22/2010
- by Austin Carr
- Fast Company
From randy.house.gov.A-ha! So it was a Texan. One Texan in particular: a Mr. Randy Neugebauer, he of the impossible website “randy.house.gov” (Sfw). According to The Dallas Morning News (via Gawker), Representative Randy “Joe Wilson” Neugebauer just issued the following statement: “Last night was the climax of weeks and months of debate on a health care bill that my constituents fear and do not support. In the heat and emotion of the debate, I exclaimed the phrase ‘it’s a baby killer’ in reference to the agreement reached by the Democratic leadership. While I remain heartbroken over the passage of this bill and the tragic consequences it will have for the unborn, I deeply regret that my actions were mistakenly interpreted as a direct reference to Congressman Stupak himself.” So it was not specifically Stupak that Neugebauer was calling a “baby killer,” it was simply the...
- 3/22/2010
- Vanity Fair
You know you've arrived when your name becomes a verb. But this is probably not the kind of fame Kanye West was looking for. Even though he was nowhere to be seen at Sunday night's Emmy Awards, 'Ye was on many people's lips as the phrase "pull a Kanye West" became the go-to shorthand for rude awards-show behavior.
Host Neil Patrick Harris whipped it out just a few minutes into the three-hour broadcast, quipping, "All right, it's my job to keep things moving tonight. I'm here to ensure everything runs smoothly. Here's hoping Kanye West likes '30 Rock.' "
The reference, of course, was to West's bum-rush of Taylor Swift at last weekend's VMAs, which has very quickly become an online punching bag and super-meme, as well as another badge of dishonor for the very "passionate" rapper.
While talking to Ryan Seacrest for the E!'s red-carpet show, actress Christina Applegate pondered,...
Host Neil Patrick Harris whipped it out just a few minutes into the three-hour broadcast, quipping, "All right, it's my job to keep things moving tonight. I'm here to ensure everything runs smoothly. Here's hoping Kanye West likes '30 Rock.' "
The reference, of course, was to West's bum-rush of Taylor Swift at last weekend's VMAs, which has very quickly become an online punching bag and super-meme, as well as another badge of dishonor for the very "passionate" rapper.
While talking to Ryan Seacrest for the E!'s red-carpet show, actress Christina Applegate pondered,...
- 9/21/2009
- by Gil Kaufman
- MTV Newsroom
Kanye West's impact at the MTV Video Music Awards last week was so profound that he might have been the most entertaining aspect of this year's Emmy Awards—even though he wasn't in attendance. In a generally subdued ceremony, references to the acceptance-speech-interrupting rapper were numerous, providing some of the evening's arguably sparse highlights. There was host Neil Patrick Harris' jab at West in his show-opening monologue ("I hope Kanye West likes 30 Rock"). And Grey Gardens' Ken Howard expressing relief that his acceptance speech wasn't being interrupted by any Congressmen (a reference to South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson) or rappers. And Justin...
- 9/20/2009
- by Celebuzz
- Celebuzz.com
Last night kicked off the Weeked Update: Thursday editions, which will run until 30 Rock rejoins the line-up Oct. 15. The inevitable Joe Wilson sketch was pretty funny -- Will Forte's panic-face is a total treasure -- but I think the writers overestimated our appetite for political impressions: Jimmy Carter, Michael Steele, and James Carville? Still, the plain-old Weekend Update one-liners were dead-on ("Also Whitney Houston's drug? Drugs."), and as always, the "Really?! with Seth and Amy" was the highlight. "No one is impressed when you take your stance against 19-year-old girls, tiny Asian ladies, or the first black president," Poehler admonished. I can't not mention these two wardrobe things: One, maybe I've seen Broadcast News too many times (is there such a thing?!), but Seth: Pull down your jacket in the back! Argh, the bunching. And two, at the very end when Seth and Amy stood up, he was...
- 9/18/2009
- by Margaret Lyons
- EW.com - PopWatch
The president will do a series of interviews on Sunday with ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Univision, culminating on Monday with an appearance as an exclusive guest on David Letterman. He is not, however, going on Fox News, and the network and many Republicans are spitting mad about this. “If people are going to be on the Sunday talk shows, they should be on all of them,” said Joe Wilson, now a famous Republican heckler because of his famous heckle last week. Several other Republican congressmen huffed similarly. Fox itself is now preparing to roll out a drumbeat of umbrage about its exclusion. Who believes this stuff? Are there actually people who think Fox and the Republicans have taken offense? I suppose there must be. It is a face-off, an elemental one, but it is not about media time or fairness. It’s about who will bend first. It’s a power struggle.
- 9/18/2009
- Vanity Fair
They aren't in marketing, or in sales (although they do both simultaneously). They have a strong streak of digital intelligence, and their knack for creating conversations puts them far beyond the stereotypical techno-geek. Meet your neighborhood social media professionals, they're using the Web to not only put human faces on corporations and politicians, but also to defend their honor when something goes awry. Chris Brogan and Julien Smith call them "trust agents" after their book by the same name, and say that they are harnessing the power of Twitter and other social media to "build influence, improve reputation, and earn trust."
Are you listening Terry Moran?
David All, David All GroupTwitter Handle @DavidAll
President of the David All Group, the "nation's first conservative Web 2.0 agency," he's recently been hired by South Carolina's Congressman Joe Wilson, who stepped into the glare of the media spotlight when he shouted "You lie," to...
Are you listening Terry Moran?
David All, David All GroupTwitter Handle @DavidAll
President of the David All Group, the "nation's first conservative Web 2.0 agency," he's recently been hired by South Carolina's Congressman Joe Wilson, who stepped into the glare of the media spotlight when he shouted "You lie," to...
- 9/17/2009
- by Lydia Dishman
- Fast Company
Former president Jimmy Carter has been causing quite the ruckus lately. On Tuesday he told NBC’s Brian Williams that the opposition to President Barack Obama’s policies was largely the result of racism. He characterized demonstrators equating Obama with Hitler as racist and then went on to reprimand Representative Joe Wilson for his outburst during Obama’s speech on health care before Congress. Then Carter made his foray into the rap game by commenting on Kanye West’s behavior at Sunday’s V.M.A.’s. “I thought it was completely uncalled for,” Carter said, “and his punishment was to appear on the new Jay Leno Show.” Swap out Carter’s Southern accent for a British one, and this starts to resemble the feud between Jay-z and former Oasis band member Noel Gallagher. All we can say is: Watch out, Kanye. The Secret Service has Jimmy’s back.
- 9/17/2009
- Vanity Fair
It’s the middle of September and, as Yogi Berra once famously said, it’s getting late early. The chattering class has begun to yammer that time is running out for the Obama Administration and its allies as they fight to enact health care insurance reform. Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-Nevada) has just threatened to keep the Senate working through its scheduled October break if the impasse is not broken by then. And yet people all over the world are spending their hard-earned money on “I’m With Joe Wilson” t-shirts. The current fulcrum focuses upon a small group of conservative Democrats, led by a senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) who has exceptionally strong ties to the Pharma lobby, who are meeting regularly with a small group of not-yet-unhinged Republicans, led by senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) who ranks at the top of the list of Gop lawmakers receiving money from entrenched health care interests.
- 9/16/2009
- Vanity Fair
The public discourse has been all about interruptions lately. Just last week, President Barack Obama was delivering a speech about health care to a joint session of Congress when a heckler called out "You lie!" while he was attempting to debunk the myths created around health care reform. It was later revealed that the shout came from South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson, who later said he was sorry but may be censured this week anyway because he refuses to formally issue an apology from the floor of the House. At last night's MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye West took a page out of Wilson's book when he bounded onto the Vma stage at Radio City Music Hall to derail Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for Best Female Video. "Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!" West shouted, thoroughly flummoxing Swift.
An Internet genius managed to bring West...
An Internet genius managed to bring West...
- 9/14/2009
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Faster than you can say Joe Wilson, Kanye West has apologized to Taylor Swift for ruining her moment at MTV's Video Music Awards on Sunday. In case you missed it (and the million or so Tweets and Facebook postings and links to it), early on in the awards, Swift upset both Britney Spears and Beyonce by snaring the best female video award for "You Belong To Me." She had just started a very sweet (does she give any other kind?) acceptance speech when West jumped on stage and said he was going to let her finish her speech, but "Beyonce...
- 9/14/2009
- Hitfix
South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson heckles president during nationally televised address to Congress.
By Gil Kaufman
President Barack Obama speaks to Congress on Wednesday
Photo: Jason Reed-Pool/ Getty Images
Addressing a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, President Barack Obama laid down the gauntlet for House and Senate members to move quickly and decisively on his proposals for health-care reform legislation.
"The time for bickering is over," the president told members of Congress in the nationally televised speech. "The time for games has passed. Now is the season for action."
Though he originally hoped to have some form of health-care reform passed by August, the president's efforts were hampered by infighting among Republican and Democratic legislators prior to Congress' summer recess, the spectacle of some angry voters shouting down those legislators at town-hall meetings last month and what he described as "scare tactics" by opponents.
Despite providing just...
By Gil Kaufman
President Barack Obama speaks to Congress on Wednesday
Photo: Jason Reed-Pool/ Getty Images
Addressing a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, President Barack Obama laid down the gauntlet for House and Senate members to move quickly and decisively on his proposals for health-care reform legislation.
"The time for bickering is over," the president told members of Congress in the nationally televised speech. "The time for games has passed. Now is the season for action."
Though he originally hoped to have some form of health-care reform passed by August, the president's efforts were hampered by infighting among Republican and Democratic legislators prior to Congress' summer recess, the spectacle of some angry voters shouting down those legislators at town-hall meetings last month and what he described as "scare tactics" by opponents.
Despite providing just...
- 9/10/2009
- MTV Music News
• Last night, Barack Obama addressed the nation on health care. And childish Republican Representative Joe Wilson called the president a liar. [Politico] • Should Joe Wilson be punished for yelling at the teacher during class? [NPR] • Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is reported to be “frustrated” with her lack of power as secretary of state. [Page Six] • American Idol has named Ellen DeGeneres its fourth judge. For those of you holding out for Paula Abdul to return, this seals her fate. [Huff Post] • The Afghan Electoral Complaints Commission has invalidated voting in polling stations from two provinces due to fraud. [BBC]...
- 9/10/2009
- Vanity Fair
Last night, President Barack Obama delivered his much-anticipated address on health care to a joint session of Congress. The President used the speech to attempt to clear up any misunderstandings about his health care reform bill and to get into the details of what the plan would actually accomplish. The results were mixed, as the speech was hampered by tired partisan grandstanding on both sides and an unfortunate heckle care of Joe Wilson, a Representative from South Carolina.
Generally, the decorum was pretty poor for the duration of the speech, which is why it's a shame the President didn't just lift up a commuter bus and start swinging it around, knocking Senators and Representatives around the chamber. Naturally, that's impossible in real life (and almost certainly bad statesmanship), but it's possible in a video game called "Angry Barry." Released back in May and available as a download on the XBox 360 Marketplace,...
Generally, the decorum was pretty poor for the duration of the speech, which is why it's a shame the President didn't just lift up a commuter bus and start swinging it around, knocking Senators and Representatives around the chamber. Naturally, that's impossible in real life (and almost certainly bad statesmanship), but it's possible in a video game called "Angry Barry." Released back in May and available as a download on the XBox 360 Marketplace,...
- 9/10/2009
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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